Pierre Antonini


SN 2000B17 January 2000
SN 2001dd14 July 2001

Pierre Antonini is a retired French mathematics professor and amateur astronomer who has discovered several minor planets and two supernovae at his private Observatoire de Bédoin located at Bédoin, southeastern France. For many of his discoveries he used a 16-cm telescope or a 30-cm telescope.
He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of 35 numbered minor planets between 1997–1999. As of March 2016, the MPC ranks him 204th in the all-time, top-astronomer chart by number of discovered bodies. Antonini is also credited with the discovery of the supernovae and. In January 2004, he co-discovered S/2003 1, a minor planet moon orbiting the main-belt asteroid 1089 Tama.
The 7-kilometer sized main-belt asteroid 12580 Antonini, discovered by Laurent Bernasconi in 1999, was named in his honour.

List of discovered minor planets

10925 Ventoux28 January 1998
11147 Delmas6 December 1997
11675 Billboyle15 February 1998
13411 OLRAP31 October 1999
14533 Roy24 August 1997
15899 Silvain3 September 1997
16892 Vaissière17 February 1998
20242 Sagot27 February 1998
22 August 1998
29 November 1999
11 August 1997
29 July 1997